距離18歲的比莉．哈樂黛第一次踏進哥倫比亞唱片位於紐約錄音室，為這家公司錄製唱片距今已經超過七十年了，當時比莉的事業正要開始起飛的時候，正值美國史上的經濟大蕭條，然而她那輕鬆俏皮卻又句句敲靈魂的演唱方式、無可救藥的浪漫情懷，使得她的音樂一推出隨即擄獲大眾的心，彷彿聽著她的音樂就能忘卻現實中的負擔…。然而隨著成名所帶來的壓力、密集的巡迴演唱行程、錄音計劃及電影的邀約，讓她心力交瘁。在感情方面卻遇人不淑，最後只有借助酒精來麻痺自己。也因此比莉賴以維生的嗓音被刮削成沙啞的滄桑歌聲，身體健康狀況更是每況愈下， 1959年，比莉終因酒精中毒，以44歲之齡撒手人寰。比莉留給後世爵士女歌手的影響是深遠的。在唱功方面開拓出前所未有的情感表達方式，在音樂創作上的潛心進修成果，自她所創作的歌曲中得以綻現。登台表演時的比莉一向以正式服裝，與一朵別在頭上的花做為獨一無二的個人標記。2001年，哥倫比亞唱片公司從比莉的所有錄音中整理成10張CD，230首比莉哈樂黛經典曲目，附上116頁精美冊子及許多比莉哈樂黛檔案照片。這套值得典藏的套裝也獲得了當年的葛萊美獎【最佳歷史錄音】。這四張成一套的專輯，從中節選了比莉．哈樂黛80首作品，讓還不認識這爵士女伶的樂迷最佳選擇。
Disc 4
- Them There Eyes
- Swing, Brother, Swing
- Night And Day
- The Man I Love
- Body And Soul
- Falling In Love Again
- Laughing At Life
- Time On My Hands (You In My Arms)
- St Louis Blues
- Loveless Love
- Let
- Georgia On My Mind
- All Of Me
- God Bless The Child
- Am I Blue
- I Cover
Disc 3
- Me, Myself And I
- A Sailboat In The Moonlight
- Without Your Love
- Trav
- He
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Things Are Looking Up
- My Man
- Can
- When You
- On The Sentimental Side
- When A Woman Loves A Man
- You Go To My Head
- I
- The Very Thought Of You
- I Can
- More Than Yo
Disc 2
- That
- I Can
- I
- He Ain
- This Year
- Why Was I Born
- I Must Have That Man
- The Mood That I
- You Showed Me The Way
- My Last Affair
- Moanin
- Where Is The Sun
- Let
- They Can
- Don
- Mean To Me
- Foolin
- Easy Living
Disc 1
- I Wished On The Moon
- What a little moonlight can do
- Miss brown to you
- If you were mine
- There
- You let me down
- Spreadin
- Life begins when you
- It
- These foolish things
- I cried for you
- Did I remember
- No regrets
- Summertimes
- Billie
- A fine Romance
- One, Two, But